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    ‘Unacceptable’: Trump Spokeswoman Reaffirms War on DEI at FAA After Fatal Midair Collision
    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday pledged that the Trump administration will eliminate DEI practices at the Federal Aviation Administration in the wake of a midair collision Wednesday night that killed 67. Much of the briefing served to back up President Donald Trump’s implication the day before that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Reverses the Biden Pentagon’s Abortion Travel Reimbursement Policy
    The Trump administration has reversed the policy implemented by the Biden administration that reimbursed service members and their authorized dependents in the Department of Defense for expenses incurred in traveling across state lines to get abortions.  The new Trump policy, announced Wednesday, comes less than a week after Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee as…
    Jacob Adams
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    Detransitioners Feel ‘Relief’ After Trump Executive Order Provides Legal Recourse for Child Sex-Change Victims
    Young adults deceived by the transgender medicine industry into irreversibly altering their bodies to change sexes have the opportunity for legal remedy due to a presidential executive order this week. Claire Abernathy started identifying as a transgender male at the age of 12. She started taking testosterone shortly after she turned 14, two months after her…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Proves ‘Yes We Can’ Reduce Illegal Migration: The BorderLine
    “Alonso said he arrived Jan. 15 in California after crossing over from Tijuana, Mexico, and turned himself over to Customs and Border Protection agents, hoping he could apply for asylum and begin working in the U.S. while his case was decided. He was quickly detained.”—The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 29. Every so often, a parable…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Donald Trump Is Emphatically Correct About Birthright Citizenship
    Less than two weeks into this second Trump presidency, the fearmongering has already reached fever pitch. “He can’t do it!” the critics have invariably howled in decrying President Donald Trump’s landmark Day-One executive order upending the status quo on birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.”…
    Josh Hammer
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    Trump Devastates Bureaucracy From the Top Rope
    Executive orders, bills signed, and a media firestorm with far more bark than bite sum up the bevy of news this episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast” hits. From illegal immigration and Guantanamo Bay to freezes on hiring and strange grant funding, the second Trump administration is moving with a momentum never before seen in…
    Tony Kinnett
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    America’s Families Need a Strong Federal Trade Commission Under Trump
    The new Donald Trump administration has already signaled in many ways that it wants to prioritize the parent-child relationship and to protect that relationship from outside intrusion, like prohibiting gender education in schools. One of the greatest threats facing the parent-child relationship today comes through smartphones and social media, Big Tech’s digital products, that have…
    Clare Morell
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    Trump on Whether DEI Led to Potomac Plane Crash: It’s ‘Common Sense’
    President Donald Trump on Thursday morning spoke about the midair collision that occurred Wednesday evening near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport at a press conference at the White House. The collision just outside of Washington, D.C., involved a regional jet operating as an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, and an Army UH-60 helicopter on…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump’s DEI Executive Order—Good for Blacks, Good for America
    An ongoing principle of America’s democratic republic is e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. We honor and respect the uniqueness of every citizen. But we also have a common turf, a common set of transcendent values, that brings us together and we become one nation. Sometimes, cracks appear. Sometimes, they grow and get larger…
    Star Parker
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    ‘Should Have Been Prevented’: Trump Addresses Plane-Helicopter Crash
    As questions swirl about how a regional jet collided with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in the Washington, D.C., area, President Donald Trump noted that Wednesday evening was a “CLEAR NIGHT.” “The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport,” the president posted on Truth Social….
    Katrina Trinko
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    Trump Creates Task Force for Huge Celebration of America’s 250th Birthday
    America is so back. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a task force to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, which will take place on July 4, 2026. While the Left has tried to pummel any love for American history, Trump’s move ensures anti-American activists won’t have the last word….
    Jarrett Stepman
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    New Trump Executive Order Bans Critical Race Theory, Gender Ideology in Public Education
    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday prohibiting federal funding of K-12 schools that promote critical race theory or radical gender ideology. “Parents trust America’s schools to provide their children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand,” the order says….
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Directive Gives Military Families New Reason to Celebrate National School Choice Week
    Two welcome changes from the new White House in its first weeks are the turn away from diversity, equity, and inclusion in education and a fresh look at school choice. A great example is President Donald Trump’s executive order Wednesday on education choice for military families, just in time for National School Choice Week (Jan….
    Jonathan Butcher
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    Who Are the Nonprofits That Sued to Block Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze?
    The Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump ordered a temporary freeze of federal funding Monday, aiming to prevent taxpayer dollars from supporting "Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering." While that order has since been rescinded amid a legal challenge, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that efforts to "end…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘Bureaucrats are Still Hiding’: How Is ATF Implementing Trump’s Executive Order on DEI?
    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives asserts that it is in full compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order to suspend federal DEI policies and place chief diversity officers on paid leave despite what a Second Amendment group noted.  The ATF listed Lisa T. Boykin as a chief diversity officer for the agency…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump to Detain Violent Illegal Immigrants at Guantanamo Bay
    President Donald Trump announced plans to open a new detention center for the worst illegal immigrants at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where the United States has held terrorism suspects.  “Today I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,”…
    Fred Lucas
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    BREAKING: Trump Signs First Piece of Legislation as 47th President
    Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law Wednesday, the first piece of legislation he has signed since being sworn in as the 47th president. The law directs U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest and detain illegal aliens charged with theft, assaulting a law enforcement officer, or other crimes causing death or serious bodily…
    Virginia Allen
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    McConnell-Trump Divide Deepens, Setting Stage for GOP Battle
    Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is making good on his word to “argu[e] more with [some Republicans] probably than the Democrats.” The former Senate GOP leader’s opposition to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s confirmation could be a sign of what’s to come as the upper chamber aims to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet and enact his agenda…
    Jacob Adams
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    Most DC Bureaucrats Who Voted for Harris Say They’ll Refuse a Lawful Trump Order. Rand Paul Won’t Stand for It.
    A recent Napolitan Institute poll found that 64% of Washington, D.C.-based federal bureaucrats who voted for Kamala Harris for president said they would not follow a lawful order from President Donald Trump if they considered it bad policy. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., won’t stand for it. “The American people spoke when they voted President Trump…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Leftists’ Crocodile Tears Over Trump Are Falling Flat
    Just one week into President Donald Trump’s second administration, and the crocodile tears and sensational headlines are flooding in.  Whereas in the Biden administration, nuance and justification were front and center in every legacy news article, now headlines about the Trump administration’s deportation operations for known charged and convicted criminal illegal aliens are filled with…
    Tony Kinnett
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